The whole session is quite long and the audio is not of the highest quality but it is well worth listening to the whole session - especially to hear all that Jeff Greason has to say about XCORs ongoing development of their LYNX suborbital spaceplane, operability and plans for the future.

_________________Say, can you feel the thunder in the air? Just like the moment ’fore it hits – then it’s everywhereWhat is this spell we’re under, do you care? The might to rise above it is now within your sphereMachinae Supremacy – Sid Icarus

So, anybody want to venture a guess as to how this steerable parachute recovery thing is going to work? They're flying straight up, and I presume the goal is to get back to the launch site, so the main thing would be to compensate for wind drift. Alternatively, if you're happy with a landing somewhere downwind, you just need enough control to steer it away from inaccessible areas.

Will this thing land vertically or horizontally? Will it be powered during descent? If it's not powered and hanging under the parachutes horizontally, won't using the roll control vane just make it spin rather than traverse? Any ideas?

_________________Say, can you feel the thunder in the air? Just like the moment ’fore it hits – then it’s everywhereWhat is this spell we’re under, do you care? The might to rise above it is now within your sphereMachinae Supremacy – Sid Icarus

So, anybody want to venture a guess as to how this steerable parachute recovery thing is going to work? They're flying straight up, and I presume the goal is to get back to the launch site, so the main thing would be to compensate for wind drift. Alternatively, if you're happy with a landing somewhere downwind, you just need enough control to steer it away from inaccessible areas.

Will this thing land vertically or horizontally? Will it be powered during descent? If it's not powered and hanging under the parachutes horizontally, won't using the roll control vane just make it spin rather than traverse? Any ideas?

Roll vanes (you would need 3 or 4 I guess) only useful prior to using parachutes I imagine, and would be used in a returning coast phase, but not sure how much cross range you would get - not much, but I guess significant enough to be of use - after all, it's drops a long way prior to opening the chutes. After chutes open - who knows. Might not want to drop tail first as that could damage the engine - perhaps horizontal or nose down. Anyway, a decent steerable parafoil (like the X38) would give you decent cross range performance.